Spain: A Country of Refuge from those Persecuted by Nazism during the Second World War

During the Second World War some 80,000 people sought refuge in Spain fleeing the war and the persecution to which they were subjected by Nazism. French youths who wanted to join the Allied army in North Africa, Jews who wanted to take refuge away from barbarism, preferably in America and Palestine, and pilots of the Allied army, among them many Americans, who wanted to rejoin the fighting after being shot down on the battlefront, they crossed the Pyrenees clandestinely. The conference will detail how these epic and heroic actions occurred and what was the position of the Spanish government before the arrival of the refugees.